Figure 4From: Characteristic profiles among students and junior doctors with specific career preferences Intermediate group. The difference of the highest and lowest z-scores among 5 factors was less than 5 (=1SD) in the respondents choosing general medicine/family medicine or otolaryngology as the most probable career. Because of the similar weight of the 5 factors, General/family medicine and otolaryngology were both categorized as an “intermediate group”. In respondents who considered general medicine/family medicine as their future specialty, the z-scores of all 5 factors were less than 50, which implies external variables relevant to primary care preference were missing in the questionnaire.Back to article page